2024-04-07 00:21:23
The president of the EPO Organizing Committee, Angelos Daniel, spoke to Metropolis 95.5 about the upgrade of the 3rd National Division championship.
“All the effort that has been made in the 3rd National Division was in this direction, both with the restructuring of the groups and with the play-offs with the champions of the Associations. We have shown the seriousness with which this league should be taken. Because there must be a purpose” he said initially and continued:
“Our Committee will be renewed in the elections and we want to leave a legacy. Without a trace of chauvinism, the league must gradually become purely Greek and we must also see the mandatory age in the starting eleven, in order to see Greek players again in Super League 1. Now it is a league with a lot of competition and 34 matches. But, in the next announcement, we have to see how we will help the Greek footballer as well”.
Regarding the salaries in the category, he said: “It is an amateur league. The teams of the 3rd national team must leave the logic of budgets with one-year contracts of ex-professional players, just to save themselves. They see the tree and not the forest. The forest is the Academies and how they will produce players to sell. It is not possible if they do not produce footballers to make high budgets. The main thing about the Holistic Study is that they rank us together with Portugal and Belgium. There teams have as their main goal to produce players. We try to build teams in one summer. It takes patience and persistence.”
Source: mikriliga.gr